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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, imbricated, or successively overlapping downward: noting an involucre in which the exterior scales are progressively longer than the interior ones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.
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- adjective botany
imbricate , with the successively overlapping ends directed downward
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
ob- + imbricate
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